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KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats

ChiuauaTeardrop: Please make my song sound like Jan Hammer. Now add William Butler Yeats 'September 1913' as lyrics, but in a Latin American hip hop style. Now make it black metal. Please add kazoo. Add Goo Goo Dolls filter. I am a creator. Now make it swing, but with a bounce. Send to charts

Takhul14: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats ~

bye84333: We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.,William Butler Yeats,Rhetoric, Others, Quarrel ,

roeckmax: Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

stefanauer_hku: “Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.” William Butler Yeats

BaltimoreParade: 28 Mar 1957, Dublin: Jack Butler Yeats died. His artworks are in a number of collections, including Baltimore's Walters Art Museum. He was the son of artist John Butler Yeats and the brother of Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats.

PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909 Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889

SanjibGhoshGeng: Explanation: "Five times nominated, and all five times was unlukcy. That's his nobel story," -> Maxim Gorky was nomincated 5 times for Nobel prize for literature between 1918 and 1933. But he never won it, losing out to likes of Ivan Bunin and William Butler Yeats.

SCENATHEATRE: New show celebrating the life & work of William Butler Yeats! -

rk70534: Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes by William Butler Yeats

ProjectConsult5: Quote of the Day: "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." - William Butler Yeats

Maisieth59: Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking. William Butler Yeats

mrtnzfred: The Second Coming BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innoce

tillzen: The Second Coming BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

GotenOnNimbus: This reminds me of one of the funniest magic related stories where self-purported black magician Aleister Crowley and cultist white magician William Butler Yeats got in a magical duel that ended in Crowley getting shoved down some stairs like a nerd

sushi_talks: “Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song. I kiss you and the world begins to fade.” - Land of Heart’s Desire by William Butler Yeats

rk70534: A Thought From Propertius by William Butler Yeats

uncutgemzboi: Can someone make me a picture of William butler yeats in the rapper yeats clothes I’m tryna work on something

Frank_Hudson: Love and a Question

rk70534: Aedh Laments The Loss Of Love by William Butler Yeats

KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats

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EdHarrisMusic: Here's an old Aire base on a poem written by William Butler Yeats which was first published in 1889. Please check out "Down by the Sally Gardens"

RobertArmour10: AI and its children like AGI reminded me of the William Butler Yeats poem, “Slouching Toward Bethlehem”. Aye, AI is very like a beast.

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JuanLozanoT: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” William Butler Yeats’ words are often true, but in the present times it ought to be a lifetime mission to proof them wrong!

rk70534: Aedh Hears The Cry Of The Sedge by William Butler Yeats

Englishtag: A long and interesting article on William Butler Yeats 1865 - 1939

PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909 Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889

NoddaWhale: There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. ― William Butler Yeats

Landen__: Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. William Butler Yeats

RalphGailTeamTP: Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. -William Butler Yeats ROOMantic26ETHER RALPHGAIL

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rk70534: A Woman Homer Sung by William Butler Yeats

brontyman: “Education is not a pot to be filled. It is a fire to be lit.” William Butler Yeats

triviastorm: Accepted answers: William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

sanbrunomac: National poetry day. So I picked one by a great Irish poet. William Butler Yeats.

konstantin2116: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. * William Butler Yeats / Antony Hopkins

KayMelange: “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” — William Butler Yeats

PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909 Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889

Dmytros6: Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats

jprapke: King And No King by William Butler Yeats 'Would it were anything but merely voice!' The No King cried who after that was King, Because he had not heard of anything That balanced with a word is more than noise; Yet Old Romance being kind, let him pre…

PodcastBorn: "Don't wait to strike until the iron is hot. Make the iron hot by continuously striking."- William Butler Yeats

iratsimmons: To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come. William Butler Yeats

insightingpeace: "We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." ~William Butler Yeats

Marchbigwin1000: Don't wait for the perfect moment to strike, strike in the current moment and make it perfect. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. (William Butler Yeats)

rk70534: Aedh Tells Of The Rose In His Heart by William Butler Yeats

rk70534: Aedh Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats

Beirut_007: Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. William Butler Yeats

bondBeirut: Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. William Butler Yeats

KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats

HarrissonMarian: The Lake Isle of Innisfree BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some…

rk70534: Aedh Tells Of The Perfect Beauty by William Butler Yeats

rgtrendsetter: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

rgtrendsetter: But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.-William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

rgtrendsetter: Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. -William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

RalphGailMM: Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. -William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

rgtrendsetter: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

RalphGailMM: But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

RalphGailMM: In dreams begins responsibility. -William Butler Yeats StarMagicLounge WithRALPHGAIL

AnnalinaLehto: "The fiddlers are all thumbs, Or the fiddle-string accursed, The drums and the kettledrums And the trumpets all are burst, And the trombone,' cried he, 'The trumpet and trombone,' And cocked a malicious eye, 'But time runs on, runs on." William Butler Yeats

DrawNear_: “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” ― William Butler Yeats

KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats

SmithSpeaksCorp: Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

SteveVozzolo: ~Jack B Yeats “Ireland’s Greatest Artist” (b London, 29 Aug. 1871; d Dublin, 28 Mar. 1957). The best-known Irish painter of the 20th century, son of John Butler Yeats (1839–1922), a barrister who became a successful portrait painter, and brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.

Kenneth88288333: William Butler Yeats is the Irish poet whose gravestone carries these words: Cast a cold eye On life, on death./Horseman pass by.

montiani: “All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.” William Butler Yeats

PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909 Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889

MeowImageBot: Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Oreilly1Peter: Le William Butler Yeats- appropriate on world poetry day .

QuoteResearch: Quote Origin: Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy William Butler Yeats? J. M. Synge? Oliver Stone? Mary Higgins Clark? Anonymous? Full article:

wayswithweirds: Auden on the death of William Butler Yeats.

MeowImageBot: Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

mloughlin: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” ― William Butler Yeats

joenev: "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." —William Butler Yeats

paybacklife: "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." - William Butler Yeats

CandyFrank8: Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

BrentRamcaster: "The Rams will be like the Phoenix: rising from the ashes of their own self-destruction, reborn in a blaze of late round draft picks (and bargain-bin free agent signings)." - William Butler Yeats, on the Rams' re-model

meganwillome: Learning another poem by heart! Yeat's "The Mother of God." More at

ParnanenSari: "Once I saw a pair of swans But now they drift on the still water Mysterious, beautiful" The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats.

rk70534: Aedh Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats

EdHarrisMusic: Here's an old Aire base on a poem written by William Butler Yeats which was first published in 1889. Please check out "Down by the Sally Gardens"

RealitySelect0r: Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. William Butler Yeats

ChidiOdinkalu: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity" — “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats (1919).

StormeWebber: Dead Poets Society, Hugo House 2008. Langston Hughes, Charles Bukowski, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein and Sylvia Plath. A. Hoff, photo.

Allison96097493: William Butler Yeats when he is serious in his cups.

beyourhome: Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. - William Butler Yeats

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BujjalSonia: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.~William Butler Yeats STYLE ICON PRIYANKA

LanoukArts: While the morning star decayeth In the bosom of the air – Gayest wanderers, I and you, Gathering mushrooms in the dew. - William Butler Yeats

rk70534: Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats

walshcollege: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats Learn more:

UnjustGuardian: TIL that when Aleister Crowley was still a member of the Golden Dawn, he tried to start a magick duel with William Butler Yeats, which Yeats won by kicking Crowley down a flight of stairs. Now that's how you win a Wizarding Duel.

MKTexas: Celebrating William Butler Yeats: "And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings. " Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and Founder of Abbey Theater 1865–1939 image: Mohd Zuber saifi

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madmistermark: "All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." - William Butler Yeats

rk70534: Aedh Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by William Butler Yeats

EdwardLanquist: Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats

KalawingRiver: "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." William Butler Yeats



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